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Real Talk with Global Leaders: Honest Stories, Bold Lessons, No Filter

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📊 Reach & Stats (as of June 2025)

  • 2 Episodes a month
  • 9 episodes live | 30+ recorded
  • 10,000+ LinkedIn followers in host network
  • 70%+ listen-through rate
  • Audience growth rate: 20% monthly
  • Featured on legal, ethics, and leadership newsletters and industry posts
  • Growing traction on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Substack and YouTube 
Excited to Share FULL LIST OF CONFIRMED Podcast Speakers!!!
  • EPISODE 1 Martin Wolf CBE, Chief Economist, Financial Times
    • The Fragility of Democracy, Business Ethics and Leadership in Uncertain Times
  • EPISODE 2 Mark Babbitt, CEO & Founder of YouTern and WorqIQ, Speaker and Author & Chris Edmonds, CEO & Founder of The Purposeful Culture Group, Speaker, Author, and Executive Consultant
    • Shaping a Culture Where Good Comes First
  • EPISODE 3 David Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Chair of the Institute of Business Ethics, Co-host of All In: The Sustainable Business Podcast
    • Leading with Integrity: The Future of Business and Ethics
  • EPISODE 4 Klaus Moosmayer, Chief Ethics, Risk, and Compliance Officer, Novartis
    • How Compliance Becomes Culture: Lessons from Siemens to Novartis
  • EPISODE 5 Paul Zak, Professor, Speaker, Author, and Co-Founder of Immersion Neuroscience
    • The Neuroscience of Trust, Emotional Fitness and Why Great Leaders Hug More
  • EPISODE 6 Dame Sally Gunnell, OBE, DL former Olympic gold medallist, Author, Speaker
    • Resilience, Mindset and Building the Life you Want with Dame Sally Gunnell
  • EPISODE 7 Richard Barrett, President, Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values®, Founder of the Barrett Values Centre, Author, Coach and Artist
    • Soul Aligned Leadership: Richard Barrett on Transforming Self and Culture
  • EPISODE 8 Keith Read, Speaker, Author, and Ethics and Compliance Consultant
    • The Leader You are is the Culture you Create
  • EPISODE 9 Emily Miner, Director of Data and Services, Ethisphere
    • Building Ethical Workplaces from the Inside Out 
  • EPISODE 10 Benjamin van Rooij, Professor of Law and Society, University of Amsterdam
  • Adam Balfour, Vice President and General Counsel for Corporate Compliance and the Vice President for Global Management Risks for Bridgestone Americas, Author
  • Jens Bammel, Executive Coach for Neurodiverse International Professionals, Formerly Secretary General of the IPA
  • Richard Bistrong, FCPA, Anti-Bribery, Ethics & Compliance Consultant, Speaker & Author
  • Yoab Bitran, Director for the Compliance Group, Albagli Zaliasnik, Speaker, Author, Academic Director of the Latin America Compliance Diploma
  • Matt Blumberg, CEO of Acrolinx
  • Nicola Bonucci, Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité, Legal Adviser, ICCROM, Former Director of Legal Affairs at the OECD
  • William Browder, CEO Hermitage Capital Management, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, Author, Speaker
  • Andrew Cave, Author, Ghost Writer and Business Writer, Daily TelegraphForbesCorpComms and Driving Change
  • Jonathan Coad, Crisis PR and Editorial Lawyer, Author, Campaigner for Improved Press Regulation and Media Commentator, Coad Law
  • Susan Divers, Consultant Ethics, Culture and Compliance Specialist
  • Nicholas Eldred, Consultant General Counsel
  • Marsha Ershagi, Managing Director, Tapestry Networks
  • Tom Fox, Founder and Creator, Compliance Podcast Network, Executive Leader at the C-Suite Network, communist, Author, Editor the FCPA Blog, Principal, TomFoxLaw
  • David Hieatt, Co-Founder of Hiut Denim and The Do Lectures
  • Peter Jukes, Author, screenwriter, playwright, literary critic and journalist.  Co-Founder and Executive Director Byline Times
  • Steve Keogh, Former Scotland Yard Homicide Detective Inspector, Author, Speaker, TV Consultant
  • Andrea Lattimore, Global Director Compliance & Business Integrity, Vodafone
  • Sian Lloyd, Broadcaster, Presenter, Media Coach, and Trainer
  • Joe Nellis CBE, Professor, Deputy Dean, Professor of Global Economy, School of Management, Cranfield University, Speaker and Author
  • Guido Palazzo, Professor of Business Ethics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Speaker and Author
  • Rob Parsons, OBE, Director and Founder Care For the Family Charity, Author and Speaker
  • Roxanne Petraeus, CEO, Ethena
  • Gill Phillips, Former Director Editorial Legal Services at Guardian News
  • Simon Scales, Chief Education and Development Officer, Association of Corporate Investigators
  • Dina Denham Smith, Executive Coach, Leadership Adviser, Author
  • Scott Sullivan,  International Chief Integrity Compliance Officer 
  • Natalie Surtees, Managing Director and Founder, Tedaisy Insurance Group Limited
  • Richard Susskind, President, Society for Computers & Law, Author, Speaker, Adviser, Visiting Prof. (Former Chair of Advisory Board), Oxford Internet Institute
  • Alison Taylor, Clinical Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, Author
  • Jerry Temko, Managing Director, Major, Lindsey & Africa Recruiters
  • Martin Wallace, EMEA Marketing Director, Captify
  • Clare Wardle, GC and Co Secretary, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

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Topics We Cover:

  • Ethical decision-making under pressure
  • Culture repair and transformation
  • Isolation, resilience, and courage at the top
  • Purpose, governance and reinvention

Real Talk with Global Leaders: Honest Stories, Bold Lessons, No Filter

💼 Audience Profile

Our audience includes:

  • C-suite leaders and senior executives in law, compliance, ESG, strategy, and culture
  • General Counsel and Ethics Officers from FTSE 100, CAC 40, and Fortune 500 companies
  • Influential thinkers across corporate governance, risk, leadership, and sustainability

Demographics:

  • 65% UK & EU-based
  • 80% hold VP or C-level roles
  • 70% engaged via direct invite, LinkedIn or curated networks

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Emily Miner

Director of Data and Services, Ethisphere

Martin Wolf CBE

Chief Economist, Financial Times

Dame Sally Gunnell OBE

Olympic Gold Medalist, Former World Champion, Speaker

Paul Zak

Professor, Speaker, Author, and Co-Founder Immersion Neuroscience

Klaus Moosmayer Ph.D

Chief Ethics Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis

Chris Edmonds

CEO & Founder The Purposeful Culture Group, Speaker, Author, and Executive Consultant

Mark Babbitt

CEO & Founder of YouTern and WorqIQ, Speaker and Author

David Grayson

Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Chair of the Institute of Business Ethics, Co-host of All In: The Sustainable Business Podcast

Benjamin van Rooij 

Professor of Law and Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam and Global Professor of Law at the University of California

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